Tag: Politics

The Shiv Sena has propelled another assault at ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by disseminating to its individuals a booklet titled “Ghotalebaaz Bhajap” (Scamster BJP) that annals the tricks involving BJP pioneers. The 56-page booklet was conveyed amid a hierarchical meeting at the Sena Bhavan on Wednesday.

The front of the booklet highlights four BJP pioneers, alongside a say of the trick charged against them.

A photo of Eknath Khadse highlights with the say of the MIDC arrive trick, Education Minister Vinod Tawde is included for the abnormalities in supply of flame dousers to zilla parishad schools without welcoming tenders, Food and Civil Supplies Minister of Maharashtra Girish Bapat is included for the tur dal trick, and in conclusion, Dilip Gandhi for the credit waiver trick.

What’s more, a few senior BJP pioneers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and nationalpresident Amit Shah likewise get a say in the booklet.

Since framing the administration in Maharashtra, in organization together with the BJP, the Sena has been genuinely vocal about its grievances with… .Read More

Jennifer Aniston has given USD 1 million for tropical storm help endeavors in Puerto Rico.The 48-year-old on-screen character gave USD 500,000 to the fiasco help administrations directed by American Red Cross.

Aniston gave the rest of the sum to artist Ricky Martin’s establishment to help survivors of Hurricane Maria, which guaranteed 43 lives, leaving the Caribbean island and the U S domain in shambles, announced Entertainment Weekly.

Martin took to Twitter to thank the “Companions” star for her genuine gesture.”Jennifer Aniston, you are astonishing a debt of gratitude is in order for giving $500k for our Puerto Rico help subsidize. We will always remember. You are sparing lives Jen,” he composed.

Hours after the US declared its choice to haul out from the Unesco, America’s Permanent Representative to the UN issued a stern cautioning to other UN organizations that they will be assessed through a similar focal point.

US citizens should “never again be on the snare to pay for arrangements that are unfriendly to our qualities and influence a joke of equity and regular to detect,” US Ambassador Nikki Haley said in an announcement.

Her comments came hours after the State Department declared that the US will pull back from the Unesco, blaming the UN social body for “hostile to Israel” bias.The withdrawal will produce results on December 31, 2018. The United States will remain a full individual from Unesco until at that point.

In July, when Unesco made its most recent ludicrous and politically based choice, assigning the Old City of Hebron and the Tomb of the Patriarchs as a feature of Palestinian domain, the US plainly expressed that this choice would contrarily influence its assessment of the level of engagement with the association, she said….Read More

Protester BJP pioneer Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday hammered the legislature for shielding party boss Amit Shah child Jay Shahover affirmations heaved against him and said it had in this manner lost its high good ground.

“I would prefer not to remark on the value of the case as it involves examination yet I might want to state the way in which a focal clergyman hopped into the shred… He is a focal pastor, not a sanctioned bookkeeper of Jay Shah,” Sinha told NDTV.

Sinha likewise reprimanded the administration for permitting Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to go up against the instance of Jay Shah. “These were avoidable and ought not have happened. The extremely uncommon conditions in which the Additional Solicitor General has been cleared to guard the concerned individual likewise raises a few issues and that was additionally to my mind avoidable.

“Taking a gander at all these thusly maybe the high good ground that we had involved every one of these months and years some way or another seems to have been lost,” said the previous Finance Minister.Jay Shah’s organization has purportedly recorded a turnover of Rs 80 crore in 2015 in the wake of demonstrating just Rs 50,000 the past… .Read More

President Donald Trump shook hands with storm survivors on the US island of Puerto Rico today, amid an outing intended to calm pundits who marked his underlying reaction moderate and ham-fisted.

Trump and First Lady Melania Trump went by the district of Guaynabo, strolling among trees felled by Hurricane Maria’s stream impact winds.

He got some information about their homes, posturing for photographs and delicately shot paper towels ball style into a group. About two weeks after Hurricane Maria whipped through the US region, a great part of the island stays shy of sustenance and without access to power or drinking water.

The organization’s pundits said the early reaction was not sufficiently quick or on a scale that could help the island’s 3.4 million American residents.

Not long after touching down at Muniz Air National Guard Base toward the start of his five hour trip, Trump energized fiasco administration laborers revealing to them they “can be exceptionally glad” of their reaction. Be that as it may, a considerable lot of the pugilistic president’s remarks seemed, by all accounts, to be gone for calming his own particular pundits, welcoming authorities to state “pleasant things” about the reaction and standing out it from..Read More

Over the years North Korea has earned millions of dollars from the export of arms and missiles, and its involvement in other illicit activities such as smuggling drugs, endangered wildlife products and counterfeit goods.Still, there are only a handful of cases that suggest these illicit networks have been turned to export nuclear technology or materials to other states.

North Korean technicians allegedly assisted the Pakistanis in production of Krytrons, likely sometime in the 1990s.Krytrons are devices used to trigger the detonation of a nuclear device. Later in the 1990s, North Korea allegedly transferred cylinders of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6) to Pakistan,where notorious proliferator A.Q. Khan shipped them onward to Libya.UF6 is a gaseous uranium compound that’s needed to create the “highly enriched uranium” used in weapons.

The most significant case was revealed in 2007 when Israeli Air Force jets bombed a facility in Syria.The U.S. government alleges this was an “undeclared nuclear reactor,” capable of producing plutonium, that had been under construction with North Korean assistance since the late 1990s.A U.S. intelligence briefing shortly after the strike highlighted the close resemblance between the Syrian reactor and the North Korean Yongbyon reactor. It also noted evidence of unspecified “cargo” being transported from North Korea to the site in 2006.

More recently, a 2017 U.N. report alleged that North Korea had been seeking to sell Lithium-6 (Li-6), an isotope used in the production of thermonuclear weapons. The online ad that caught the attention of researchers suggested North Korea could supply 22 pounds of the substance each month from Dandong,a Chinese city on the North Korean border.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will meet at 3 pm EDT (1900 GMT) on Friday over the latest missile test by North Korea at the request of the United States and Japan.

North Korea on Friday launched a missile that flew over northern Japan before plunging into the Pacific Ocean, the South Korean military said. The still-unidentified missile was launched around 6.30 am (local time) from east of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, according to South Korea’s military Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The officials said that the rocket could have reached an altitude of 770 km and flew for a total of some 3,700 km. According to the Japanese government’s missile alert system, the missile overflew the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido and fell into the Pacific Ocean, Efe news reported.

Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters that the missile fell into the ocean some 2,000 km from the town of Erimo in eastern Hokkaido without being seen to do so by any ships or aircraft in that area.

Here are the top developments:

1) The UNSC will meet on Friday over the latest missile test by North Korea.

2) US President Donald Trump has been briefed on North Korea’s launch of an unidentified missile over Japan, according to White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

3) Following the missile launch over his country, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abesaid that Japan would “never tolerate” what he called North Korea’s “dangerous provocative action that threatens world peace”.

4) The South Korean President’s Office immediately called a meeting of that country’s National Security Council and troops of the Asian nation undertook a ballistic missiletest in the Sea of Japan to the east of the Korean Peninsula in response to the launch.

5) The launch, from near Pyongyang, came after the UNSC imposed the eighth set of sanctions on the country over its ballistic missile and atomic weapons programmes

6) The 15-member Security Council voted unanimously in support of a US-drafted resolution condemning the missile test conducted by North Korea on September 3 and imposed measures that include a ban on its textile imports and restrictions on oil exports to the country.

7) The US has asked China and Russia to take direct action against North Korea to “indicate their intolerance” to the provocative missile tests carried out by Read More

The Maharashtra government, police, BMC and other agencies are all set for a mammoth Maratha ‘mook’ (silent) procession that will be taken out on Wednesday, officials said. While the authorities anticipate participation of between 500,000-800,000 Marathas from across the state, the organisers are optimistic the figure could be more than three million.

Senior Congress leader Narayan Rane told media persons that the procession, starting at 11 a.m. from Byculla, will be peaceful and orderly, silent, have no political speeches and will end at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai by 5 p.m.a delegation will call on Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and submit a memorandum of our demands. The main is reservations for the Maratha community in jobs and education, besides others, he said.

The Marathas have started trooping into Mumbai since early Tuesday from all over Maharashtra to take part in the morcha, 58th in the series of processions being held in different parts of the state since August 9, 2016. They have been reaching the state capital by trains, private vehicles, trucks, tempos and even two-wheelers, while waving Maratha flags and sporting bright orange turbans.

The Mumbai Police has geared up with over 7,000 personnel, including commandos, armed police, plain clothes officers assigned for providing security during the procession.There will massive traffic diversions,important roads either closed or made one-way, arterial roads opened, etc, to ensure smooth passage for the procession participants, said Deputy Commissioner of Police Rashmi Karandkiar..

Social media importance can be gauged by the fact that Facebook now has a market capitalisation of $ 472 billion and has more than 2 billion users on the platform. There is Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube which also have a large number of users sharing content and views, discussing, debating or just consuming content every morning. Globally, social media exercises the highest influence on public discourse.

It is this function which makes it important for governments across the world to register their presence on social media. But do governments restrict themselves to only having a presence on social media or do they go beyond it? The Oxford Institute at the University of Oxford is trying to study this under the Computational Propaganda Research Project. A working paper titled “Troops,Trolls and Troublemakers:

A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation” studies how governments across the world, use organised teams to manipulate public opinion on social media.According to the report, social media has also become a tool of social control.

Governmentsnow deploy significant resources on social media “to generate content, direct opinion and engage with foreign and domestic audiences”.The paper discusses strategies, tools and techniques used for social media manipulation, how these teams are organised and their…..Read More